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Spring Villa, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Beulah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36804. The Survey maps it on the Parkers Crossroads quadrangle.

Spring Villa within Lee County

On record in Spring Villa

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Spring Villa, Spring Villa Road, Opelika, Lee County, AL
Spring Villa, Spring Villa Road, Opelika, Lee County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

50 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Spring Villa between 1994 and 2018, burning about 398 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140926-001
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission3590 CR 38, AL
9 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Spring Villa: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Ballinger ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Hilyer-Knight ProspectIronOccurrence
Kiln-Gilmore Dolomite QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Salem PitClayPlant

Every working recorded in Lee County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Parkers Crossroads2.6 miles13
Chewacla2.6 miles13
Edgewood Forest2.9 miles13
Salem3.9 miles14
Hallway4.0 miles13
Hopewell4.4 miles13
Beauregard4.4 miles13
Crooked Creek4.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157094. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.